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Portsmouth, NH - New European Union directives require the complete phase-out by 2006 of several toxic chemicals commonly used in the electronics industry. Citizens Advisers, a socially responsible investment manager, initiated a study earlier this year of electronic ...

WASHINGTON, DC - The poor comprise the world's largest untapped market for business innovation, partnership, and profits. To illustrate how the private sector can successfully engage the poor and do well while doing good, the World Resources Institute (WRI) is conve...

LAKE SUCCESS, NY - Canon U.S.A., Inc., a subsidiary of Canon Inc. (NYSE: CAJ), is among 15 corporate, government, non-profit and education organizations receiving the 2004 WasteWise Program Champion Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for impleme...

ATLANTA -- In an effort to raise safety awareness on Halloween, UPS (NYSE: UPS) is enlisting the help of No. 88 UPS Ford driver Dale Jarrett and the Universal Studios' Monsters. The company is launching a national broadcast public service campaign to stress the need ...

SAN DIEGO, CA -- As part of a celebration marking expansion to 5,000 worldwide locations, The UPS Store^TM and Mail Boxes Etc

The kit, which will be available throughout the school year, outlines a program that encoura...

CLEVELAND, OH
WHO:

Jane L. Campbell, Mayor, City of Cleveland;

Bruce D. Murphy, president, Community Development Banking, KeyBank and board member, Social Compact;

Stephanie Tubbs Jones Congresswoman,...

DETROIT -- The American Red Cross has presented General Motors Corporation and the GM Foundation with one of its highest honors for corporate citizenship, the Circle of Humanitarians award. The award recognizes GM's recent contributions to the hurricane relief effor...

SAN ANTONIO - The philanthropic arm of SBC Communications - has awarded a total of $1 million in SBC Excelerator technology funding to help law enforcement agencies across the SBC 13-state region enhance the management and dissemination of AMBER Alerts.

Research announced by Business in the Community has discovered that
charities are increasingly using Cause Related Marketing to achieve their fundraising targets and 22% of the Corporate Fundraisers questioned thought that Cause Related Marketing was vital to th...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - A surge in social activism has made "double bottom line" funds an increasingly viable form of community based investing. Civic organizations, community activists and government agencies are partnering with for-profit private equity funds to pro...